
OPI poll results
Source: OPI.net
The poll results displayed below are from various OPI members in Europe and North America, and as such they need to be contextualised accordingly.
We at shop-sa felt that they are worth sharing as there are interesting aspects for consideration relating to our own market dynamics.
Do print catalogues still have a future in the business supplies industry?
- Yes (77%)
- No (23%)
Is it important to have a managed print services strategy for SMB customers?
- Yes (65%)
- No (35%)
What is your strategy regarding the size of your outside sales teams?
- Decrease (46%)
- Keep the same (33%)
- Increase (21%)
What percentage of your white-collar staff have returned to working full-time in the office?
- 1-25% (30%)
- 26-50% (22%)
- 0% (16%)
- 100% (13%)
- 76-99% (9%)
- 51-75% (10%)
Compared with pre-COVID, how is your supply chain performing?
- Worse (77%)
- Better (15%)
- About the same (8%)
Do you think the back-to-school season will be …
- Worse than last year (62%)
- Really don’t know due to the pandemic (21%)
- Better than last year (12%)
- Same as last year (5%)
Dealers: what sales shifts have you seen during COVID-19?
- Considerable shift to jan/san and PPE categories (66%)
- All sales are down (31%)
- No change (3%)
Compared with six weeks ago, how do you feel about your business prospects for the remainder of 2020?
- More confident (43%)
- About the same (28%)
- Less confident (29%)
How confident are you that your business will still be operating this time next year?
- Very (52%)
- Reasonably (27%)
- Not very (16%)
- Not at all (5%)
Which of these best describes your year-on-year organic sales trend since the beginning of March?
- Minus 50%-79% (30%)
- Minus 30%-49% (23%)
- Minus 5%-29% (15%)
- Essentially flat (11%)
- Minus 80% or worse (11%)
- Plus 5%-15% (5%)
- Plus 15% or better (5%)
As a result of the coronavirus outbreak, has your company implemented a remote working policy?
- Yes (83%)
- No (17%)
Will the performance of your business in 2020 be affected by the coronavirus outbreak?
- Yes (67%)
- Too early to say (27%)
- No (6%)